My friend ran a 16.5 at the drag strip with a stock 92 GTI 8V. All he did was strip the interior and had a cone filter on that he borrowed from a guy that was watching. The car was way ahead of a stock Civic Si until the end of the 1/4 mile where the Civic passed him. I think the Civic did a 16.0. The tranny on my friends GTI is what I think made him do so good.
Réjean Langis 93 Corrado VR6 [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Will K>" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 1:55 PM Subject: Something to make you feel good about your 16v > > Hey guys, > A bunch of my friends and I decided that yesterday night would be a not > so busy day at the dragstrip, so we went. We were really wrong about the > busy thing, cuz there was about a billion people there and we all only got 2 > runs in each. My omni is out of commision with a bad fuel pump, so I ran my > Jetta. All of my friends managed to break at least 13s in their imports, > one of them a 13.8 in a 2000 Civic (watch out for that one). Well, the > Jetta performed alright. I launched hard and the best I could muster was a > 19.1 @ 70mph with a 2.6 60' and a R/T of .6. I thought I wasn't gonna go > lower than a 20 sec E/T but i did. My second run was worse with a 19.4 > because I bogged after a hard launch, but my trap speed was 72 mph. On my > first run I actually had a 2 car length jump on a 72 Dodge charger 440 who > ran a 13.3, but he quickly passed me. Anyway... this is good reason to make > you feel good that you have 8 more valves in your A2 than I do in my Jetta. > What kind of times do you 16v guys turn? Anybody else run an 8v at the > strip? I might take mine to a different track this weekend to see if I can > break 18's :) > > Will Keegan, Harrison Twp. MI > 86 Shelby Omni GLHS #28 > 91 Jetta GL 8v > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > _____________ > List Sponsor: http://www.netsville.com > To remove yourself from this list, send mail to [email protected] with 'unsubscribe a2_16v' in the body of your message > See us on the web at http://www.a2-16v.com > Visit the 16V Homepage at http://www.gti16v.org > _____________ List Sponsor: http://www.netsville.com To remove yourself from this list, send mail to [email protected] with 'unsubscribe a2_16v' in the body of your message See us on the web at http://www.a2-16v.com Visit the 16V Homepage at http://www.gti16v.org
